¹⁶ But he said, ^(A)“As the Lord lives, before whom I stand, ^(B)I will receive nothing.” And he urged him to take it, but he refused.

¹⁵ And the Jews who were in ^[a]Shushan ^(A)gathered together again on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and killed three hundred men at Shushan; ^(B)but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.

¹⁶ The remainder of the Jews in the king’s provinces ^(A)gathered together and protected their lives, had rest from their enemies, and killed seventy-five thousand of their enemies; ^(B)but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.